MFK in the News

September 2010

The Peanut Solution

New York Times Magazine, by: Andrew Rice

September 2, 2010

Like most tales of great invention, the story of Plumpy’nut begins with a eureka moment, in this case involving a French doctor and a jar of Nutella, and proceeds through the stages of rejection, acceptance, evangelization and mass production. The product may not look like much — a little foil packet filled with a soft, sticky substance — but its advocates are prone to use the language of magic and wonders. What is Plumpy’nut? 

 

Read here: One journalist's experience of the politics and stories behind Ready to Use Therapeutic Food in Haiti

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Wolff's Battle In The Business For Hunger

St. Louis Business Journal, by: Trish Miller

September 7, 2010

St. Louis pediatrician Patricia Wolff's struggle to keep her Meds & Food for Kids nonprofit going was mentioned in a New York Times magazine piece Sunday on world hunger. Meds & Food for Kids makes fortified nut paste to help feed starving children in Haiti. Wolff told Times Reporter Andrew Rice that her nonprofit faces steep competition from Nutriset, a private, for-profit French company that makes its own paste called Plumpy’nut, according to Rice’s story, “The Peanut Solution.”

Read more: Wolff's battle in the business for hunger | St. Louis Business Journal

 

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